A digital landscape lies ahead, and despite hesitations, many organizations are transforming their WANs to align with a cloud and mobile environment. With most organizations still learning how to mesh old processes with new ones, the months ahead likely will show a few bumps in the road as CIOs find their balance with new digital strategies.

In industries ranging from retail and restaurants to healthcare, education, and public safety, organizations are deploying cloud-managed, software-defined IoT solutions over 4G LTE networks — and achieving the flexibility, scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness they need amid the Digital Transformation.

Retailers can benefit from a few networking best practices, including cloud management, content filtering, and day-1 networks, to help their networks stack up during black Friday and other peak buying seasons.

As retail technology continues to evolve, the networks that stack up during the holiday seasons of the future will be those with an Elastic Edge that moves, contracts, and expands to meet constantly evolving business needs.

One of the best ways to boost retail network security at the WAN edge is to leverage a separate router to move a specific application off the enterprise network and onto a completely separate Parallel Network dedicated to that application.

As technologies continue to advance, IT teams are faced not only with the challenge of how to utilize in-vehicle technology solutions, but also with how to determine which solutions best fit their unique needs.